Good afternoon. All here today to a hearing entitled acting americans from covid19 scams protecting americans from covid19 scams. The nation continues to fight the Health Crisis brought on by the covid19 pandemic. In addition to the threat this pandemic poses to americans, the Economic Impact resulting from responsible Public Health protocols have been felt in every corner of the country. It has become clear that preventing practices and dedicated resources including expanding testing capability and the availability of personal protective equipment are absolute necessities to a responsible path forward in extinguishing this Health Crisis. However, during this time of National Emergency and coordinated recovery, there are scam artists that seek to take advantage of consumers, especially the nations most vulnerable communities, like that of our nations seniors. Networks Consumer Reports consumers across the u. S. Reported over 136,000 Different Cases of covid related scams totaling appro
Vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not the yeas are 83. The noes are 9. The motion is passed agreed to. Mr. Grassley madam president . The presiding officer the senator from iowa. Mr. Grassley ive got a couple of issues i want to speak on. One would be trade and section 232 issue. That would be my second one. The first one, i want to speak about commonsense entitlement reform. In the past year weve seen a flurry of drug pricing proposals. Im encouraged by efforts from my colleagues here in the senate, especially Ranking Member wyden, colleagues in the house that agree in the house of representatives who agree with this effort to reduce drug prices and the president of the United States who has already been involved for a year and a half in lowering drug prices. All have made lowering Prescription Drug costs one of the Core Principles of our efforts and particularly a core principle for this administration
The more troubled middle east is on fire again. On the border with the gaza strip, battles are taking place in six settlements at once; according to various sources, more than 400 people have already died in gaza, and more than 700 in israel. The number of wounded is in the thousands. During this night, the army hit more than 500 targets of hamas and Islamic Jihad groups banned in russia. Hamas said it had captured about 130 israelis, including. Several israeli generals at once, and this is of course an unprecedented event in recent history. The truce is rejected by both hamas and the idf. Israeli Prime Minister netanyahu said that the response would be terrible and declared what was happening to be a real war. Netanyahu enacted paragraph 40 al and now the israeli army can act independently, having received complete freedom of action last time, for understanding. This paragraph was put into effect during the war. Doomsday, that is, 50 years ago. The border with gaza is being tightened
Circulation around that. Getting a northerly breeze. High pressure is beginning its move towards us. That will warm things up over the next few days. 60s and 70s, and upper 70s and low 80s. 580. Sal. 580 east of canyon road, steve. Yes. There was a truck that caught on fire. The cab was completely burned to the ground. Fortunately no injuries. However, it caused a big delay both directions. Fire crews were on the scene. A lot on the scene to prevent the trailer from actually catching fire which was loaded with cardboard. There is an Engine Company there blocking the right lane. Out towards dublin, traffic will be slow. Eastbound all of the trucks coming over the hill. Westbound traffic may also be affected. But it eastbound is really taking a lot of the slow traffic. I can show it to you on the map here. Traffic is slow. Mostly eastbound at this point. But also a little bit westbound. We have been looking at contra costa county, highway 4, very slow. 680 is backed up from the benecia b
Online viewers around the world. Good morning and welcome. I ellen mckenzie, dean of the Johns Hopkins school of Public Health. I would like to start by extending a special welcome to president bill clinton. And also joining us today, several policymakers leading the way in Health Reform including congressman elijah couplings and dr. Lianna wynn who will join us here in the program. Also in the audience. Congressman john sarbanes, Antonio Hayes and representation from senator ben carsons office. I would like to extend an especially warm welcome to senator Barbara Mikulski whom we are now proud to call [ applause ] who we are proud to call one of our own. Thank you so much for being here. We are indeed honored to be working with the Clinton Foundation to bring you todays summit on one of our most important Public Health problems, americas Opioid Epidemic. This is a National Crisis that demands involvement from all levels of government, public and private organizations as well as from in